I thank you sophie.  In my opinion, although Moderators might disagree,  before the tel # is deleted from forum view...to protect someone's identity...I wouldn't  bother.  These callers do not deserve "protecting"...they need exposure!  It's not a legit # by a legit caller making a legit request.  I looked it up and there are a lot of people online complaining, as per sophie's warning. It's a scam and the kind of thing that, IMO, we should be warned about here. It seems that calls coming from that number are users of new call feature on Gmail and Google Talk. The scammers are using different "requests" to get people to reveal - whatever. It's not only directed to property owners....from what I was able to find on the Internet in a nano second of searching the tel #. So, deleting that tel # from this forum, IMO, helps the scammers to further the scam.  Let's expose these guys.

I just got spammed by 760-705-8888. A foreigner, perhaps Asian accent, just called me that his mother Laura has sent two requests and I had not responded. I insisted that I respond to all inquiries.

He proceeded to request my email address to send the inquiry and I told him to do it via Homeaway, he did not want to use Homeaway because his email is probably blocked.

He gave me his email stevewilliamz88@gmail.com and his mom's cel phone (201) 458-0702. This last one is not a cel phone number, but a landline in New Jersey. When I confronted him with this information he asked another person in the office "is mom's number (201)..." "Yes".

I threatened to call the police but he did was not bothered by this and insisted in renting my home in “July or August” (I would have been so mad with this threat that I would have hung up).

I finally confronted him as a spammer and that I did not want anything to do with him.

What is the scam? I will never know, but all homeowners must be aware of this risk.

Thanks Sophie for listing the number, thanks to you I was able to prevent falling into this trap!!!

Got the same call last night.  Same claims from a man with a middle eastern accent, very noisy background.  Said he wanted to rent my home for a month.

This is helpful but, today I got this inquiry;

Traveler Comment: Dear sir/maddem: My name is andrew,I was interested in a yearly lease.Would you consider this?We have lived on Amelia Island,fl.,for seven years.I'm a 100%disabled vietnam veteran along with my wife and mother in law have over 5000.00 net income a month.We are originally from marlboro,ma. I am 65 years of age and I and feeling that perhapes I'm in the 9th inning.I guess thats alwright as long as It's not the bottom of the 9th.As in price you can deside this.thankyou

So, whats up with this?